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15% Off Text Link Ads Holiday Sale

written by John Chow on October 4, 2007

How one lazy bum made $176,697.50

Text Link Ads is having a 15% off sale during the month of October. Right now you can order up any links in the TLA inventory of blogs and buy those links for 15% off the stated price when you enter holidays in the coupon code. The 15% off price will be the price you pay as long as you renew it. If you renew it forever, that is the price forever.

Unfortunately, all link spots on this blog are sold out. However, this is a great time to pick up some post level text link ads. Those are the “related link” at the bottom of a blog post.

Post Level Text Link Ads

The ad can have a full 80 character title and 150 letter description. Pricing is based on the PageRank of the post. That great part is they can be had for as little as $5! You can view prices and inventory of articles available for post level ads here.

As Low As 2.26 Cents Per Click

CashQuests has done a case study on how the Post Level TLA links she bought on my blog performed. She purchased a post level links in the following posts.

The links have sent CashQuests 752 unique visitors so far. That breaks down an amazing 2.26 cents cost per click. As CashQuests states, “You’d struggle to find a better cost-per-click anywhere online!”

If you’re a brand new Text Link Ads advertiser it maybe better to use the $100 coupon code. It really depends on the size of your purchase. If the 15% off can save you more than $100, then use that. Otherwise, use coupon code starter kit to get $100 off a brand new order. The starter coupon is available to new TLA advertisers only.

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{ 39 comments }

Turk Hit Box October 4, 2007 at 3:07 pm

hurray, I will use my special technique and buy the best post level text link ad :)

DeboHobo October 4, 2007 at 5:32 pm

Ah Oh John! Someone is challenging you to a dual. They are taking both you and Shoemoney on!

Looks like they found a way to increase their RSS quicker than you. Oh my!

http://www.debohobo.com/2007/10/04/the-empire-strikes-back-chow-shoemoney/

Danny @ Blogs For Money October 5, 2007 at 2:35 pm

“To vote for JohnChow.com click John’s RSS”

If I was him, I’ve have linked all the “clickj xxx’s RSS” to my own feed =D

Cash Quests October 4, 2007 at 3:32 pm

At these crazy prices, I’m going to buy links on every page here! You’ll have to change the tag to “miscellaneous ramblings of a dot com mogul and lots of links to CashQuests.com” :twisted:

Liberty and New Creation October 4, 2007 at 5:09 pm

You’re in the same niche, so it makes sense.

I’m still trying to find a post that is semi-related to mine.

Malignition.com October 4, 2007 at 3:33 pm

Not a bad deal, TLA is great.

Alex Shalman October 4, 2007 at 3:34 pm

Good call John. Too bad you’re all sold out though!

Fortunately I still have some text link ad spots available at my site if anyone is interested :twisted:

Shaun Carter October 4, 2007 at 6:17 pm

Only the sitewide links are sold out. John has hundreds of post level links available.

alexander Batista October 4, 2007 at 4:04 pm

thats true cash quest hold on why am i agreeing with him i don’t have as much money as he does……….well just not yet :)
your’s truly thegeekboys.com

mubin October 4, 2007 at 4:28 pm

great to see you have enough time to post from the gamers conference, or is the post set on auto-pilot? TLA must love you.

Liberty and New Creation October 4, 2007 at 5:03 pm

Aw man. Now everyone is going to know about this trick.

Mubin October 5, 2007 at 6:13 am

Everyone has known about it since, John posted about AWHILE ago.

MyBlogContest October 4, 2007 at 5:56 pm

That’s great!!

Now you can buy link from my site and get 15% off.

Danny @ Blogs For Money October 5, 2007 at 2:36 pm

eh?

Aditya Kumar Singh October 4, 2007 at 7:03 pm

They don’t accept paypal payments. They only take credit cards.

chinaboy October 4, 2007 at 7:22 pm

John Chow, your Google Pagerank goes down to PR5 now, does the TLA price also goes down?

Danny @ Blogs For Money October 5, 2007 at 2:37 pm

Why? You’re ping for exposure/clicks and they’re based on traffic, not PageRank. Almost everyones pagerank has gone down but the traffic here is going up! :-D

Etienne Teo October 4, 2007 at 8:34 pm

a smart move cashquest made to purchase 3 of the popular post around.. :wink:

Danny @ Blogs For Money October 5, 2007 at 2:37 pm

Didn’t there used to be a “popular posts” widget or something? I can’t see it anymore :(

Tim October 4, 2007 at 9:23 pm

Thanks. I just registered it on yesterday evening ! :smile:

–blog for dream–

GettyCash October 4, 2007 at 9:29 pm

I will use coupon to buy ad. 15% off is not bad :razz:

Blog Contests October 4, 2007 at 10:02 pm

Cash Quests is pretty on to it eh

Tax Deductible Mortgage Canada October 4, 2007 at 10:04 pm

Wow, I have to say the amount of visitors CashQuest got from the post links really surprised me. That’s an unbeatable cpc. Very nice.

lyricsreg October 4, 2007 at 10:51 pm

That’s quite a few visitors. Sounds tempting, but I am afraid of TLA’s :)

Making The Money October 4, 2007 at 11:47 pm

Forget the link love and think in terms of visitors and there’s nothing to fear :grin:

Popular Bookmarks October 5, 2007 at 12:27 am

Why is TLA not producing any links on my site..

soccer dvd October 5, 2007 at 11:07 am

I received the same email too

TLA it seems having stiff competition from TNX.net

Maybe that’s why there’s a 15% off eh?

Googlelady October 6, 2007 at 4:52 pm

TNX is good because they are giving a free 2000 credits and you can start with them, but their system should be improved. TLA is on this industry before TNX and they know what they are doing. But also when you search for text link ads in google TNX is at the top so I think TLA should work on it as their main keyword is text link ads. I have made a review about tnx if anyone is interested. TNX Review

Stephan Miller October 6, 2007 at 8:08 am

That’s a deal. I can’t seem to get the cost I am paying for site targeted Adwords down to that much.

Googlelady October 6, 2007 at 4:54 pm

I am not a fan of content ad network. So I think you should try other methods to decrease your $$ for the site targetting.

PJ October 6, 2007 at 2:42 pm

Nice deal!

damo October 6, 2007 at 4:10 pm

Hey this is Damo and I was wondering how do you get traffic to blogs. I have spent so much time into my blog that it breaks my heart to not get traffic to it. I was just wondering can you help me with my blog so I can provide for my family.Please comment on my blog.

UniqMan October 6, 2007 at 9:45 pm

Good idea! I’ll sell links in my blog :grin:

swollenpickles October 7, 2007 at 4:28 am

There’s a lot of competition in the ad market now. 15% off has probably come at a good time. WidgetBucks is offering a $25 bonus on signup at the moment as well. :wink:

Turk Hit Box October 7, 2007 at 5:29 am

I advice everyone to check out this post I made in June to get the best out of Post level text link ads.
http://www.turkhitbox.com/link-building/using-post-text-link-ads-effectively.html

max October 8, 2007 at 12:08 am

Wow, I never thought of TLA as cost-per-click. Now it makes more sense… :shock:

Bogdan October 8, 2007 at 5:06 am

Ooook. Can somebody tell me where the F*** is the coupon field :smile: because I added to my account $130 and I didn’t found it to take my $100 bonus? Also I would appreciate if anybody knows where to send an email to claim my free $100 because the contact form doesn’t seem to be working. I am waiting for a reply for couple of days :???: . Thank You!

Wahlau.NET October 11, 2007 at 12:40 am

tla is great until google started to hate text links selling

Celebrities & Blog Tips October 14, 2007 at 12:39 am

Do you think people will stop buying links with Google starting to crack down on paid text links ?